A Considerably Common Morality: Catholic Ethics and Secular Principlism in Dialogue
Despite their continuing prominence in the twenty-first century, Catholic moral thought and secular "principlism" (expounded by the philosopher Tom Beauchamp and religious ethicist James Childress in their canonical Principles of Biomedical Ethics) rarely have engaged in constructive conve...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2019]
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Christian bioethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 86-127 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDB Roman Catholic Church NCH Medical ethics NCJ Ethics of science |
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| Summary: | Despite their continuing prominence in the twenty-first century, Catholic moral thought and secular "principlism" (expounded by the philosopher Tom Beauchamp and religious ethicist James Childress in their canonical Principles of Biomedical Ethics) rarely have engaged in constructive conversation to date. Using recent examples of interworldview and interdisciplinary exchange as inspiration, I put forth the novel claim that, alongside some important disagreements, the two approaches share substantial common ground-and that much good could come from a reasoned dialogue between their adherents, including a number of joint efforts toward health care reform. In particular, Catholics and principlists could profitably discuss morality's relationship to happiness, the nature and proper scope of freedom/autonomy, the significance of various virtues, the normative force of a common morality, the right to adequate health care, the protection of the economically disadvantaged and animals in biomedical research, and the promotion of organ donation and palliative care. |
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| ISSN: | 1744-4195 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christian bioethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/cb/cby016 |